Rate My Professor Nick Parata

Parata has contributed to research through targeted internships, including a Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga-funded summer internship supervised by Associate Professor Jeremy Hapeta, which focused on flourishing mental wellbeing for rangatahi Māori. He also interned on the project 'PARS wars: a systematic review of "Play, Active Recreation and Sport" (PARS) in promoting mental health among Māori youth,' supervised by Dr. Jeremy Hapeta. His scholarly output includes co-authorship of 'Teaching Games for Whakawhānaukataka: Doubling Down on "Understanding" that Kī-o-Rahi is More Than Just a Game – Emphasising Whakawhānaukataka to Promote the Importance of Hauora (Wellbeing)' in Junctures (2024), and authorship of 'Tenei au te koronga: Growing Māori postgraduate research excellence' in MAI Journal (2023). Additionally, he presented 'Tama tu tama ora, tama noho tama mate - Play, Active Recreation and Sport (PARS) for flourishing Māori tamariki and rangatahi' at the SESNZ 2024 conference at the University of Otago. In 2017, Parata participated as a student in the Hands-On at Otago programme in the Department of Physiology.